Dre, Calvin has barely been on the field. He injured his back a few games ago making a circus catch and was inactive for last week's game so that has limited him some. Also, Martz's offense is extremely complicated so they're bringing him along slowly. Marinelli has said that they aren't just going to hand him a starting job, that he'll have to earn it.

He has caught everything that has been thrown to him. He runs hard, clean routes. He is tall, fast, has great hands, a great attitude and is motivated.This isn't a case of Mike Williams or Charles Rogers.

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Thanks for the update jammer..I am too far from Ford field to see what's really going on but something still ain't right in Millenland

Agreed. This team just doesn't have enough talent to compete. Period. That falls squarely on the shoulders of the GM. How can a team have 6 straight top 10 picks (3 of them in the top 3), and only have 3 decent players to show for it? FOUR WRs the last FIVE #1 picks? Millen is the freaking laughing stock of the league. But hey, Ford likes him, so that should be good enough for us.

Well, it isn't.

The secondary is garbage, we only have 1 quality LB (Ernie Sims), and our O-line is too slow, too small and too weak.

These aren't new issues, we've had them for YEARS. But instead of addressing them in the drafts, Millen continues to draft at the "skill" positions. Well the skill positions are useless if they don't have time to do their thing.

Agreed. This team just doesn't have enough talent to compete. Period. That falls squarely on the shoulders of the GM. How can a team have 6 straight top 10 picks (3 of them in the top 3), and only have 3 decent players to show for it? FOUR WRs the last FIVE #1 picks? Millen is the freaking laughing stock of the league. But hey, Ford likes him, so that should be good enough for us.

Well, it isn't.

The secondary is garbage, we only have 1 quality LB (Ernie Sims), and our O-line is too slow, too small and too weak.

These aren't new issues, we've had them for YEARS. But instead of addressing them in the drafts, Millen continues to draft at the "skill" positions. Well the skill positions are useless if they don't have time to do their thing.

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This past draft was the perfect opportunity to trade that number 2 pick for two draft picks or a quality veteran....

a) hold on to the football
b) break a tackle
c) block
d) catch the ball
e) make someone miss
f) outrun a linebacker once in awhile

I know that our O-line blows chunks, but common man. He hasn't done anything well. He's supposed to be a "speed back", but I haven't seen him outrun anyone yet. On edge runs he gets caught by DEs or LBs, on runs up the middle he gets taken down by the first man each time. If you can't break tackles then you had better out run them. So far Bell hasn't done either.

"I was an alcoholic," Kitna said. "I was cheating my way through college. I was a womanizer. The final straw was my girlfriend at the time caught me in bed with another girl. I was just like, what am I doing with my life? This was the best thing that ever happened to me, something I didn't deserve. She's far too beautiful. She loves me. What are you doing?"

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Now, everyone is running to the Lions' altar. Detroit is known as "Hockeytown," but the Lions are truly the soul of the city. If the Lions make the playoffs -- which would be their first postseason appearance since 1999 -- or heaven forbid they smell a Super Bowl, it would be one of the biggest sports stories in Michigan history and easily dwarf the championships won by the Red Wings and Pistons. If the Lions won a Super Bowl, it might even be the biggest story in the state's history, period, ranking right up there with the 1967 riots. The Lions have never won or appeared in a Super Bowl and they've only won one playoff game since William Clay Ford Sr. bought the team in 1964 for $4.5 million.

These are the results from the NFL players poll on which positions are most important.

It is funny to see that WR is not even close to the top, yet we have been obsessively going after them with draft picks for the past 5 years.

"Not counting quarterback, what is the most important position in football?

Center.......15%
Running back.......15%
Cornerback.......14%
Offensive tackle.......13%
Linebacker.......13%
Kicker.......8%
[ Based on a survey of 278 NFL players ]
FAST FACTS Wide receiver drew just 0.8% of the vote, the same as punter.... Bears center Olin Kreutz has been named to six consecutive Pro Bowls....... Vikings rookie running back Adrian Peterson, who left Sunday's game with a knee injury, leads the NFL with 1,081 rushing yards.... Kicker drew 7.9% of the vote.... Nearly 70% of QBs picked an offensive-line position.
This is an expanded poll from the November 19, 2007 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine."